We wonder if the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has just gone and wasted a ton of money chasing weather forecasts? It has backed 11 different approaches to forecasting outputs for solar and wind energy projects, costing it AU$9 million. We first noticed this when Vestas put out a release on its subsidiary Utopus to pilot a better forecast for Wind in partnership with Infigen Energy in 2 wind farms in South Australia. Turns out that this is a case of throwing multiple pieces of money at multiple approaches and finding out which ones are best. The idea is laudable because getting intermittent energy resources like wind and solar to behave predictably, solves part of the problem of using these resources…